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With 64 bit disk or UEFI formatted flash stick in drive you need to get UEFI drive choice for DVD or Flash to show up in F12 boot menu. Then it should default during install to Windows boot manager as first boot device in BIOS setup or you'll have to set it that way.

What if you disable UEFI to boot DVD as plain DVD?

You must be missing settings. Can you take pics of every BIOS tab? Attach using paper clip icon.

Also check if there is a UEFI firmware update on
The laptops Support Downloads webpage. This may
Be what's needed. But lets see the BIOS pics first.

Here is the Downloads page where there is a Firmware Update download that appears to only be an .exe to run from an installed OS. You should not proceed with any BIOS update until you have precise step-by-step instructions: NP-RV511E (NP-RV511-S02UK) | Support | SAMSUNG UK

So let's make sure you don't get a UEFI DVD boot option with the DVD in the drive. If not then it's not performing as it should with UEFI boot enabled.

So disable UEFI and if it won't install from Legacy DVD choice with UEFI disabled then we need to try another installer to compare. You had a good idea to format a stick using the special tool I linked you. Another idea is to burn another DVD using Windows 7 USB-DVD Download Tool. If you don't have a fresh ISO download for your version of Win7 I will loan you mine.

With UEFI off and legacy enabled it does the same thing again.Interestingly i have another Windows 7 set of disks without SP1 which were for a computer we no longer have or use and have tried both of them and get the same outcome so that points to me to be a problem with it reading boot disks.

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